Committee for the Defence of Democracy

Protesters take to Polish streets to 'defend freedom'

Thousands of people took to the streets in more than 30 cities across Poland on Jan. 23 to "defend freedom" and protest against the conservative government.

"We are not revolutionaries," said Mateusz Kijowski, founder of the Committee for the Defence of Democracy (KOD) which organized the demonstrations.

Thousands Protest in Poland over Govt's Constitutional Court Plans

Polish citizens took to the streets of more than 20 cities on Sunday to demonstrate against moves by the recently elected government to reform the country's top court.

Alongside Warsaw, protests were held in Pozna?, Gda?sk, Wroc?aw, Lublin, Kraków, Katowice and Tarnów, and many other places, Radio Poland reports.